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Subject: Re: Setting up GEOM mirror
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Vivek Khera wrote:
>
> On Jun 25, 2006, at 2:14 PM, Mike Jakubik wrote:
>>
>> The problem with these instructions is that they don't take in to 
>> account the last sector. You may very well end up writing the 
>> metadata on the file system.
>>
>
> When was the last time you fdisk'd a disk and it used the last sector 
> on the drive? I always end up with a bunch of extra space that didn't 
> fit into the round numbers of the file system.
>

Hopefully never :) Just mentioning this as a precaution.